#Embarrassing moments Patch

I wandered around through the mucky water doing my work and was just climbing out of the pond when I hit a deep patch of mud and my boots got stuck. I had a crush on a guy and one day he accompanied me to the disgusting pond where I work during my field season.

The pond at the field site on the day in question was very full and very muddy after a monsoon rain flooded the valley around it.Īll of you gals out there reading this: remember those stories at the back of Teen Magazine, the ones where the girl did something mortifying in front of the guy she liked? This is one of those stories. God forbid I do something so spectacularly ungainly without at least 4 or 5 people seeing me! I did get some semi-serious injuries (I have a big scar on my knee from where I hit the trailer’s wench on the way down), but even then I thought it was pretty funny. It all happened so fast that I hung there thinking, “Wait… How did I end up here?” Everyone at that lake always stared at us while we worked, so of course a whole bunch of fishermen witnessed this display. This time, though, I totally missed the foothold and pitched off the front! A second later, I was dangling from the front of the boat like a monkey, hanging a few feet over the water.

I was the skipper that day, so I stepped from the boat onto the trailer to give it the shove as I’d done a hundred times. One day a few summers ago, my friend backed the trailer into the water, but the water was shallow and the boat needed a good shove to break free from the trailer. Many of you know that I spent several years collecting water samples from a small urban lake. The boat we used to collect water quality samples, tied to the railing alongside the boat ramp.